Authors Alliance is pleased to announce our collaboration with the eBook Study Group on a joint statement supporting Illinois HB5236, the Digital Library Protection Act, which passed the Illinois House without a single no vote and now heads to the Senate. The bill is a measured response to a major problem:  Illinois libraries are spending large amounts of public dollars on ebook license contracts that undermine patron privacy, block ordinary library functions, and make it more difficult for libraries to buy and maintain a ebook collection of works from a broad range of authors.